Cornelius Nepos Quotes
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.Cornelius Nepos
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Felix Klein -
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville -
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
Abbey Clancy -
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Iris Chang -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
Kate Brown
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix -
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
Rafael Nadal -
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
Laura Schlessinger -
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
Ted Allen
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It's an Olympic Games, at the end of the day, and to represent your country at the Olympics is about as good as it gets. Put a gold medal on top of that, and it doesn't ever get any better.
Bradley Wiggins -
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
C. S. Lewis -
I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
Dave McClure -
Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.
Sam Kean -
I would look down on my own achievements and make myself smaller for boyfriends and I'll say it's fucking exhausting and I have no time for that. I've been kind of embracing my own power and really getting in touch with my inner goddess.
Ashnikko -
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos